The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-07-23
MISCELLANEOUS.


eLer.
"A couple recently married at Santa
Rosa, Cal, bore the same family name.
were both the same age, and their
birthdays came on the same date.
1t is a curious scientific fact that
all the elements of the poison found IN
rattlesnake are inherent in the
common Irish potato.
Nellie Lamb, of Fillmore County,
Neb., aged eleven years and wearing
short dresses, recently ran away from
home with printer name Kelsey.
-Brown-"How your eyes flashed
while you were talking to Miss De We're.
Jones!" Jones-"Of course they did
my boy. was sparkling"
"A grown turkey, belonging to Mrs.
G. b. Beechcr, of Griffin, Ga, swallowed
a bee a few days ago, which stung it's
vitals, and in less than an hour it was
stone dead.
If hens be at liberty 100 are enough
for an acre, but if confined of course an
acre will afford room for much larger
number. In this case, each flock of
ten or twelve hens will require house
eight feet square-say 200 fowls on an
acre.
lightning struck near tree against
which a negro boy was leaning in At
lanta. He whirled around two or three
times and ran. After running some
distance he stopped and went through
the same spinning motion. He has been
crazed ever since.
New Orleans women are, without
doubt, the best dressed to be seen any
WHERE says u writer in the New
Orleans Picdyune. One fact cited in
evidence is that they do not ignore the
just claims of economy, this restraint
preventing guudiness. -4uqusta (Ga.)
Chronicle.
Fishing for Compliments. -Fusby
IA everybody's getting too clever
nowadays. I assure you, my chief
object in society is to conceal my
ignorance, and prevent people from
finding out what an abject fool really
ami" Miss Towers nd do YOU
succeed?n --Punch.
-"Of the ripe age of eighteen" is
what an esteemed Springfield paper
says of beautiful and accomplished
maiden now visiting at the capital.
This ought to be pleasant reading for
the unfortunate females who have
entered upon the sore and senile years
OF eighteen and twenty. Chicago Ne,OS.
Say, didn't you tell me when you
sold me that dog that he was bird
dog?" Eyes, that's what l said"
"Well, you swindled me. That. dog
won't hunt" ~ didn't say he would
hunt. He's bird dog. Cook the birds
for him. That's the way he likes them
best. "-Newman Independent.
Some years ago an American gram
marian gave conjugation of the verb
kiss, as follows: "Buss, to kiss; rebus,
to kiss again; pluribus, to kiss without
regard to number; sillybus, to kiss the
hand instead of the lips; blunderbuss,
to kiss the wrong person; omnibus, to
kiss everybody in the room; erebus, to
kiss in the dark"
George Scott started out to fight
tame bear in New Hampshire town
the other night on wager of twenty
five dollars. Bruin gave him side
winder'' on the ear which broke his jaw
and knocked him senseless, and when
George came to he packed his valise
AID left the country IN a dog-trot.-
Detroit Free Press.
Have you spoken to my daughter,
yet?" asked the old nam. mo, sir; l
wanted your consent first" "Well, l
advise you to give up the idea. l don't
believe she would marry you, and if
she did, neither of you would be hap
py." "Why do you think so, sir?"
Because you part your hair in the
middle and she parts hers on the side. "
Puck
A Cincinnati Jew owed clothing
firm in that city $50 for an overcoat,
which he did not seem inclined to pay.
An attorney induced him one day 70
take Turkish bath, and while he was
enjoying himself, u constable came in
and took all his clothes, not even leav-
ing shirt-stud. After three hours
wait, his brother brought him his old
suit.
"A young New Yorker now on a
western ranch, engaged to a wealthy
Brooklyn maiden, in a letter to a gen.
tleman in this city, declares that things
are not at all rosy in the great and
boundless West. He is working us
stable boy, and is glad to find even
this employment. though it pays but
little more than the cost of his board.
philadelphia Press.
Very considerable: Miss Edith
"Why, mamma; here is notice
in the morning paper of the COM
plete failure of the Widows and
Orphans Benefit Insurance Company!
Wasn't that the company that poor
dear Uncle James had his policy for
our benefit in?'' Mamma-"Yes, dear"
Edith-"And it was only two days
ago you collected the amount in
full?" Mamma.-"Yes, dear Edith